It was very rare for me to buy a completely instrumental record in my teens, but this 1967 release was an exception. Earl Van Dyke was the house keyboard player for Motown Records, and his organ playing on this song is great! Listening now, it sounds not unlike the theme to a contemporary TV show, but it brings back great memories for me when I was 15.
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The video is an artwork for itself. Well done, even though the musican is also new to me. xx Michael
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Glad you liked it. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I don’t know this guy, Pete. His back-up music is great, yet it does sound like a theme song. Thank you.
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Thanks, Jennie. When I was 15, I didn’t realise just how much it sounded like a TV theme. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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It did! Best to you, Pete.
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Yes, you nailed it. It sounds like theme music from TV shows of the late 60s
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It does indeed. At the time, that never occurred to me. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I agree. It does!
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Great music! During my teenage years, I bought several instrumental 45’s (e.g., Paul Mauriat’s arrangement of “Love Is Blue” and the main theme from “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”) as well as vinyl albums (e.g., the “Hawaii 5-O” soundtrack). But it wasn’t until my early 20’s that I began to collect most of my instrumental albums, both orchestral and synthesizer (from J-S Bach to Tchaikovsky; from Synergy to Jean-Michel Jarre).
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Pleased to hear you enjoyed Earl Van Dyke, David.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I grew up listening to my father play along with big band records on Sunday afternoons. I had to wait for my mother to load up a record with words. By my teens I still had a decent supply of Ventures records. And everything Bacharach ever put on vinyl.
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In my late teens and early twenties, I collected a lot of 1920s band recordings, like Paul Whiteman, Lew Stone, Ray Noble, Roy Fox, Nat Gonella, and others. But I always preferred the songs to the instrumentals, especially when Al Bowlly was the singer.
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I admit it I have not heard this guy before….amazing sound….thanx for sharing chuq
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He was well known in the Motown world, but not so much for his own recordings.
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Ye was a great talent. chuq
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I liked instrumentals a lot but this is new to me. Catchy!
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It caught me at the time. 🙂
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Cool! I have never heard this one before.
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It was very ‘niche’, and a minor hit in Britain. Glad you liked it. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Hi Pete, I did not know this but it is great!
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Such a lively piece of music! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’ve heard of the artist, but I can’t say I’d heard the track before; great vibe, though, and as you say, it could easily be a TV theme tune! Cheers, Jon.
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If a TV show had used it as a theme, I’m sure it would have been a big success! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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nice choice. I have another documentary rec for you, have you seen ‘standing in the shadows’? it’s about the amazing musicians who were the backup studio musicians at Motown. it’s brilliant
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I have seen that, and it’s great. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Haven’t heard of this chap. I was more into reggae, rock and blues than soul, I must admit.
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He was mainly a backing keyboard player on many of the Motown songs. This track caught my mood at the time, so it’s mostly a personal memory. I loved Ska music in my teens, but always found Reggae too slow and boring, to be honest. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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